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I strongly disagree that we are in need of such regulations here in America. Just as I would rather see a thousand guilty people go free than one innocent person punished, I would rather see a thousand children named Nevaeh than one couple not allowed to use an innocuous name that just happens not to be on the government's "list". It's only a name. If any person dislikes their name so strongly, they're free to use another and/or to legally change it.
As for your argument that the government already regulates where we can drink or smoke, so it may as well regulate what we can name our children, that really has no validity. Perhaps it does infringe on our freedom too much in those areas, but how does that justify allowing it to further infringe on our freedoms in another area?
I appreciate the fact that we do not have naming laws in this country because we have a tradition and a heritage of respecting personal freedom. I wish you did too.